[Lazarus] What is the future of NoGUI widget set?

[Frank Church]

On 26 January 2011 18:29, waldo kitty <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:

> On 1/26/2011 13:08, Frank Church wrote:
>
>> After having sparked a much longer thread than I expected, I need to get
>> back to
>> my problem, although it may belong in a different thread.
>>
>> Now in most case data modules expose interfaces that the GUI parts of the
>> app
>> call to get data.
>>
>> My problem now is the other way round, where the Data Module needs to
>> connect
>> with the GUI first, in that whether or not the GUI is running, the Data
>> Module
>> can make a call and send the data to it if it exists, but without having
>> to
>> compile in any GUI dependencies.
>>
>
> in this case, i would consider a pipe (named or otherwise)... create the
> pipe when the GUI unit starts up ... the data unit looks for the pipe... if
> it does not exist, it does not attempt to communicate with the GUI part...
> when the pipe comes into existence, then the data unit can start sending its
> data into the pipe...
>
> seems workable ;)
>
>
>
Pipes are a new area for me, are there any Lazarus demos of their usage?


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